THE NEWS AGENTS
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Jude Cowan Montague's creative news-arts show Saturday 2.30pm-3.30pm Resonance 104.4FM
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EXPERIMENT AND JOURNEY
'On a rainy Saturday in cold old February it was a delight to be chatting about music and arty things and having a bit of a sing with Jude Cowan Montague' JUDY DYBLE
She creates poetry which finds the humanity amid the horror of our times.' BILL NEELY
'Jude Cowan Montague has gone where I've never seen a jobbing journalist tread before.' JON SNOW

Sunday, 26 January 2014

This episode we were delighted to have as guests Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert ‘When Reporters Cross the Line; the heroes, the villains, the hackers and the spies’.The book’s publication coincides with the start of the trials in September of British newspaper executives on charges of phone-hacking and making corrupt payments to public officials.His first book (written with his research partner Jeff Hulbert) is based on a BBC Radio 4 documentary which he made in 2011.It is the latest step in his career which is already wide-ranging across journalism, management and regulation.A fascinating discussion was flanked by a live musical improvisation and composition by Howard Jacques. Howard was joined by Jude Cowan Montague who selected phrases on the spot in the studio from the book by Jeff and Stewart.Howard brought an amazing array of percussion with bowls and floor frame to the studio. He is familiar to Resonance listeners as one of the three Bermuda Triangle Test Engineers. with Melanie Clifford and Nick Wilsdon.

Miyuki Kasahara and Calum F Kerr will talk about their residency project ‘Rhône Nucléaire: the Folklore of Cultural Capital’where in May 2013 they walked the ‘nuclear corridor’of the Rhone valley, France, and will then discuss attitudes to nuclear power in Europe and Japan.

Atsuko Kamura

A special musical interpretation of international news agency stories about the tsunami in Japan and its aftermath by Jude Cowan Montague

Saturday, 4 January 2014

The programme theme tune is written by experimental improvising musician Steve Moyes. He is a multi-instrumentalist whose main instruments are cello and electric guitar. He makes extensive use of electronics, live looping and computer processing.

Steve collaborates with a wide variety of musicians and artist in other media, including film, dance, live drawing/painting and spoken word.

Jude Cowan Montague is an artist, historian and news archivist. She works on the Reuters collection at ITN Source. She is a poet and her debut collection, 'For the Messengers' responded to Reuters news stories in 2008 that she archived as part of her dayjob. www.judecowan.net

Rob Edwards is a political and cultural journalist working at Sheengate Publishing and on assorted freelance projects. He is also an author of modern history specialising in life stories and oral testimony, and an activist for housing, employment and social service. www.robertedwards.org.uk